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It is good to be back from Tech Ed. I actually go a couple of days early for
meeting with additional groups such as INETA and the Microsoft MVP program
group. In all the meetings and time spent at Tech Ed this year, one thing became
obvious. We are in a 'catch up' period.

There has been a ton of news and products coming out of Microsoft over the
past few years, including Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, Windows Vista,
and .NET 3.0 with its WPF, WCF, WF, and Cardspace. There also have been
technologies such as AJAX and a Silverlight beta getting lots of coverage. On
top of all this, Microsoft has been beating the drum on Visual Studio "Orcas"
and its new LINQ data features as well as on new versions of SQL Server
("Katmai") and Windows Server ("Longhorn"). It is an understatement to say that
the days are busy at Microsoft.

With all the cool products in the pipeline, you'd think there would be grand
announcements and loud bands playing at Tech Ed. This is, after all, the big
show for IT people. It is where Microsoft can make big noise and build the
excitement.

Of course, this seems to be a reflection of Tech Eds past.

In one of the most subdued Tech Eds that I can recall, there were no bands
before the keynote, no cheering sections, and no real comedians. They did have
Christopher Lloyd as "Doc" from Back to the Future. Unfortunately, even the
Delorian seemed to have a slow time at rolling onto the stage. Not even
Microsoft's Bob Muglia was able to bring the excitement to the stage. Maybe if
Steve Ballmer had shown up to yell "IT, IT, IT" it would have gone better.

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For those of you keeping up by reading books. The following are just a few of
the new books that have been recently released. If you've read any of these,
feel free to write a review to be posted on CodeGuru. See the submission
guidelines at:

1. PM Concepts: Processes and Knowledge
Areas By Aleksey Shevchenko - Project
Management (PM) is a hot topic and a key to success within the workplace. Here
you will learn about the Project Management Processes and PM Knowledge Areas of
a project. The articles that will follow in this series will walk you through
the entire Project Management Processes.http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,38pu,1,3l37,5jss,jorm,i5r0

2. Implementing Dynamic Scroll with Ajax, JavaScript, and
XML By Vlad Kofman - Implement an
Ajax-enabled scrollable table, in which rows are dynamically fetched from the
server, as the user scrolls, without the whole page refreshing. This technique
is unique and very convenient for implementing pages with a lot of dynamic
content in a readable form; for instance, a live news feed.http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,38pu,1,h04z,jeay,jorm,i5r0

3. Using the Java 2D LookupOp Filter Class to Scramble and Unscramble
Images By Richard G. Baldwin - Learn how to
use the LookupOp image-filtering class from the Java 2D API, along with the
Random class from the java.util package to write a pair of easy-to-use programs
to scramble and unscramble images in a reasonably secure fashion.http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,38pu,1,mgeu,f0l9,jorm,i5r0

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